Fan.



L. L. FUNK.

FAN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31, 1910.

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FAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

Application filed. March 31, 1910. Serial No. 552,651.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lnvr L. FUNK, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fans, of which thefollowing, when taken in connection with the drawing accompanying andforming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, suflicient toenable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand,make, and use the same.

This invention relates to fans held in and operated by the hand.

The objects of the invention are, principally, to obtain a fan madeentirely of card board or heavy paper which will be light in weight,easily held, economically made, of pleasing appearance, and which can beeasily packed for shipment, either in a made up or partially made upform.

In the drawing hereinbefore referred to Figure 1 is a plan view of theblank from which the device embodying the invention is obtained. Fig. 2is a front elevation of the device embodying the invention. Fig. 3 is anedge elevation of the device illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a frontelevation of a modification of the device illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.Fig. 5 is an edge elevation of the device illustrated in Fig. 4. Figs. 6and 7 are end elevations of the handle of the device, partially folded.

A reference letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicatesuch part throughout the several figures of the drawing wherever thesame appears.

A is a blank having the circular portion a integral with the handleportion a and sepa rated by cuts B, C, and D, from parts E, e, F, f, G,g, of the handle of the device.

H, h, are hooks on the upper end of part Parts E, F, G, and a aredefined by the scored lines K, L, M, and parts 6, f, g, by the scoredlines 70, Z, m.

I, J, and j, are cuts in blank A.

When the several parts E, F, G, and e, f, g, are folded, in the mannerillustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawing, on lines K, L, M, 76, Z, m, theupper end of the part G may be put through the cut I and the hook H maybe put through the cut J, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. The upper endof the part 9 is also put through the cut I, and hook it put through thecut The upper ends of parts G, g, are thus held to part A.

N, n, Fig. 2, are wire staples holding the several parts of the handletogether at the middle and lower end thereof.

In the modification of the device illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 the hooksH, h, at the upper ends of the parts G, g, are omitted, (asis indicatedby broken lines 0, 0, Fig. 1), and the several cuts'I, J, j, in part aof the blank A are not made. Adhesive material is applied on the upperside of parts a, E, F, G, and on the underside of parts 6, f, g, andsaid parts are folded as illustrated in Fig. 6 and secured together bysaid adhesive material or by Wire staples (N, 12,) as shown in Fig. 2.

The several parts E, F, G, a, c, f, 9, may if preferred, be folded asillustrated in Fig. 7, and in such case adhesive material is placed onthe several parts a, F, G, as hereinbefore described, and also on theunder face of parts F, G. Adhesive material is placed on the under sideof parts a, f, g, and on the upper side of parts f, 9, also. When thusfolded the under faces of E and F come together and the upper face of aand the under face of G, and the part G is underneath part F and part Fis underneath part E. Part G is on one side of part a and part 9 is onthe other side of said part a. Part 9 is next to said part a, andunderneath part 7, and said part f is underneath part c. All the severalparts are secured by adhesive material. In whatever way the severalparts E, F, G, and e, f, g, are folded the folds are made substantiallyon the scored lines indicated by broken lines K, L, M, and 70, Z, m,respectively.

The parts I, Q, 10, g, are illustrated in Fig. 1 as being separated fromthe paper or card board forming the part a by the circular contour lineB of said part a, and separated from parts E, e, F, f, and so going toWaste, but the separation of said parts P, Q, p, g, from part a is notessential.

aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent is,

1. As a new article of manufacture, a fan consisting of a body part madeof a layer of flexible material, and a handle integral with said bodypart and made of a number of layers of flexible material, the layers ofthe handle obtained by folding said material over on itself, with alayer of said handle extending along the faces of the body part andsecured thereto, and the layers of the handle secured together.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fan having a body part made of alayer of flexible material and a handle integral with said I body partand made of a plurality of layers of said flexible material, with alayer of the handle extending out therefrom and along one face of thebody part and an additional layer extending out from the handle andalong the other face of the body part, the layers of said handle securedtogether and to the faces of the body part.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fan provided with a handle, saidhandle integral with the body part, and consisting of a plurality oflayers of flexible material secured together by adhesive material ontheir meeting faces, and said body part reinforced by layers of saidhandle extending out therefrom and along the faces of said body part andsecured thereto by adhesive material.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a fan comprising a body part offlexible material, and a handle integral with said body part andconsisting of a number of layers of said flexible material, said layerswhich form the handle made of different lengths with a plurality thereofextending over and onto the body part, the layers of said handle beingattached together and the portions of said layers which are on the bodypart being attached to said body part.

LEVI L. FUNK.

In the presence of- CHARLES TURNER BROWN, CORA A. ADAMS.

